There is no “right” to an education in the Constitution. However, if governments are going to run education programs for both children and young adults, they have an obligation to provide a quality education and to make it affordable for the people who support the institution with their taxes.
I’ll save public schools below the college level for another discussion. For now, let’s discuss the two problems with college tuition in the present.
First, colleges across the nation raise the costs of tuition independent of the cost of living, the market, or any other economic metric. When the economy is good, college prices go up. When the economy is bad, college prices go up. Those prices don’t seem to be tied to any reasonable measure. Why is that?
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